Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of KingstonViking Press, 1927 - 92 Seiten |
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Seite 35 - These are of the more courageous. One woman, still more heroic, is come to town on purpose : she says all her friends are in London, and she will not survive them. But what will you think of Lady...
Seite 32 - Miss Chudleigh's dress, or rather undress, was remarkable : she was Iphigenia for the sacrifice, but so naked, the high priest might easily inspect the entrails of the victim. The Maids of Honour, (not of maids the strictest,) were so offended they would not speak to her.
Seite 28 - In short, the whole air of our party was sufficient, as you will easily imagine, to take up the whole attention of the garden ; so much so, that from eleven o'clock till half an hour after one we had the whole concourse round...
Seite 16 - Westphalia ham of a morning, ride over hedges and ditches on borrowed hacks, come home in the heat of the day with a fever, and (what is worse a hundred times) with a red mark on the forehead from an uneasy hat — all this may qualify them to make excellent wives for hunters.
Seite 31 - The next day were the fireworks, which by no means answered the expense, the length of preparation, and the expectation that had been raised ; indeed, for a week before, the town was like a country fair, the streets filled from morning to night, scaffolds building wherever you could or could not see, and coaches arriving from every corner of the kingdom. This...
Seite 27 - We issued into the Mall to assemble our company, which was all the town, if we could get it; for just so many had been summoned, except Harry Vane, whom we met by chance.
Seite 26 - I had a card from Lady Caroline Petersham to go with her to Vauxhall. I went accordingly to her house, and found her and the little Ashe, 1 or the Pollard Ashe, as they call her; they had just finished their last layer of red, and looked as handsome as crimson could make them.
Seite 31 - ... seeing. The rockets, and whatever was thrown up into the air, succeeded mighty well ; but the wheels, and all that was to compose the principal part, were pitiful and ill-conducted, with no changes of coloured fires and shapes : the illumination was mean, and lighted so slowly that scarce anybody had patience to wait the finishing...
Seite 27 - My lord, my lord ! why, you don't see us ! " We advanced at a little distance, not a little awkward in expectation how all this would end, for my lord never stirred his hat, or took the least notice of anybody. She said, "Do you go with us, or are you going anywhere else?" — "I don't go with you, I am going somewhere else ; " and away he stalked, as sulky as a ghost that nobody would speak to first.
Seite 28 - Orford from the next box, where he was enjoying himself with his petite partie, to help us to mince chickens. We minced seven chickens into a china dish, which Lady Caroline stewed over a lamp, with three pats of butter and a flagon of water stirring, and rattling, and laughing, and we every minute expecting to have the dish fly about our ears.